The Media library is where the photos of your website live. You upload a photo once, and then you can use it on any page and in any block. It also keeps them tidy in folders, so you find the right shot in seconds.

This guide shows you how to open the library, upload your photos, organise them in folders, fill in their details and use them on your site.

Open the media library

Open your site in the editor.
In the left bar, click Media (the photos icon).
The Media Library opens over the editor. Your folders are on the left, your photos on the right, and at the top you find the search box and the Upload button.

Close it with the × at the top right to go back to your page.

Upload photos

On the left, click the folder you want the photos in. Not using folders yet? Stay on All Media.
Press Upload and choose the photos on your computer. You can pick many at once. Or drag them from your computer straight onto the library: when you see Drop files to upload, let go.
Each photo gets its own square while it travels: Waiting, then Optimizing…, then Uploading with a small bar. When it's done, the photo itself appears.
The line at the top counts how many are done, for example 3 of 8, and disappears when they've all arrived.

While photos upload, the Uploads panel in the bottom right corner lists every file. If one doesn't make it, the panel tells you why and offers Retry next to it (or Retry failed for all of them). When everything went well, the panel closes by itself.

Good to know:

Photos are optimised for you before they're sent, so your site stays fast. You can upload the original files from your camera export.
Size limit: images up to 50 MB each (10 MB once optimised).
iPhone photos in HEIC aren't supported: export them as JPEG first.
Keep the page open until the upload finishes. If you try to leave, the app warns you, because the remaining files would not be uploaded.

Organise photos in folders

Folders keep a big library easy to use, for example one folder per wedding or per series.

Create a folder: next to Folders, click the folder icon with the + (New Folder), type a name and press Enter. The new folder opens: upload or move photos into it straight away, because a folder is kept once it has photos in it.
Upload into a folder: open the folder before you press Upload, or drop the files on the folder's name in the list.
Move photos: click the photos to select them (click one, then hold Shift and click another to select all the photos in between). A bar appears with Move to folder: pick the folder.
No Folder holds the photos that aren't in any folder. All Media always shows everything.
Rename or delete a folder with the small icons next to its name. Deleting a folder doesn't delete its photos: they move to No Folder.

To find a photo, type in the search box: it looks in names, tags and descriptions. The three small icons next to it change the view: Grid, Original proportions or List.

Add a photo's details

Move the mouse over a photo and click the pencil. The Edit Media window opens with the photo on the left and its details on the right.

Focus point. Click the target icon under the photo, then click the most important part of the picture, like a face. When a block crops the photo (a wide banner, a square thumbnail), that part stays in view.
Alt Text. Describe the photo in a few words, for example “Bride walking up a village street”. It helps people who use screen readers and helps Google understand your pictures.
Title and Tags are for you: they make photos easier to find with the search box.
Press Save Changes.

Use a photo on your site

You don't need to open the library to put a photo on a page:

On the page, move the mouse over a photo and click Replace.
The Choose a photo window shows your library, with the same folders and search. You can also upload new photos from there.
Click a photo and press Use this photo.

The full steps, galleries included, are in Edit text, photos and buttons.

Delete photos

Move the mouse over a photo and click the bin, or select several photos and press Delete selected. If a photo is still used on one of your pages, the app tells you which pages first (Image in use): deleting it would leave an empty space there. Choose Delete anyway only if you're sure.

Storage space

Your photos count towards the storage space of your plan, together with the files you attach in the CRM. To see how much you're using, click your avatar at the bottom of the left bar, choose Billing and look at Storage under Your usage.

When the space is full, new uploads stop with the message Storage is full. Delete photos you no longer use, or press Upgrade Now to move to a plan with more space.

Good habits

One folder per job or series. Name it like the project, so you always know where a photo came from.
Upload your selection, not the whole shoot. Your site needs your best photos, and you save space.
Set the focus point on portraits. It keeps faces in view on phones, where photos are cropped more.
Write alt text for the photos on your main pages. A few words each is enough.